Chipped Beef

Name: Chipped Beef
Ingredients: three tablespoons of butter; a tablespoon of flour; the Chipped Beef, which must have been previously soaked in cold water for ten minutes; the beaten-up yolks of two eggs

From The cult of the chafing dish, 1904

Chipped Beef is a dish best enjoyed alone.

Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The cult of the chafing dish (1904) by Frank Schloesser, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chipped Beef. One of the best things produced in America, besides buyers of spurious art works and donors of Free Libraries, is Chipped Beef. You can buy it in tins and treat it thus. Put three tablespoons of butter in the dish. When just melted add a tablespoon of flour ; stir until smooth. Then add the Chipped Beef, which must have been previously soaked in cold water for ten minutes ; let it simmer for eight minutes, then stir in the beaten-up yolks of two eggs

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